Exchange Across Borders: The Beijing Music Festival at 25
NEW YORK, September 28, 2022 — Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Music Festival in October 2022, Asia Society hosts a program featuring live musical performances and a panel discussion. Composer and BMF 2019 Artist of the Year Zhou Tian kicks off the program by showcasing his compositions Song From a Lost Time and Toccata, performed by the Jasper String Quartet. This is followed by a panel discussion on the impact of the festival’s quarter-century of continuous international artistic exchange with musicians Jamie Bernstein, Du Yun, Zhou Long, and current BMF artistic director Shuang Zou, moderated by music critic Ken Smith. The program concludes with another piece by Tian, Rhyme, performed solo by cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel. (1 hr., 47 min.)
